Thousands pay their respects to late Iranian President

KUWAIT CITY – Funeral events for Iran’s president and foreign minister got underway Tuesday with a procession on the streets of the northwestern city of Tabriz as investigators launched a probe into the helicopter crash that killed them.

President Ebrahim Raisi was killed Sunday in the crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border along with eight other people, including Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian.

Thousands of mourners lined the streets of Tabriz...